KBL All-Star Game with a lot to see After 22 years of overtime, the Gongaji team won.
‘Star of the night’ Jamil Warney with 51 points Lee Geun-hwi, winner of the 3-point shot, and Bass, dunk king
Heo Woong (Busan KCC), a 185-centimeter big man, made an “unexpected” dunk.
As he was about to make a layup, Choi Jun-yong and Jamil Warney (Seoul SK) joined forces to lift him up so that he could dunk without having to defend.
Everyone laughed and applauded.
The 2023-2024 Jungkwanjang Professional Basketball All-Star Game was held at Sono Arena in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do, on Thursday.
Players from the Korean Basketball League (KBL)’s “KBL Friends” and “Gong Aji” teams, named after their characters, entertained basketball fans in the 5561-seat arena with many highlights.
In the second quarter, two senior players, Heo Il-young (39-SK) and Daryl Monroe (36-Jung Kwan-jang), officiated.
Heo made a number of incorrect calls and technical fouls, while Monroe corrected Heo’s calls with a three-judge consensus.
In the third quarter, which was played by Kim Joo-sung (Wonju DB) and Cho Sang-hyun (Changwon LG), the coaches of Kblemon, Kim received applause for blocking an attack by his teammate Kim Jong-kyu.
Players from both teams showed off their skills with spectacular dunks, double clutches after breakthroughs, and long-range three-pointers, and the game went into overtime. Down by as many as 20 points at one point, Kvlmong turned the game around in the fourth quarter.
Trailing by three points with 7.3 seconds left in regulation, Lee Kwan-hee (LG) made all three of his free throws after being fouled by his opponent, making the score 118-118 and sending the game into overtime.
In the end, Gong’s team won 135-128 in the third overtime of the All-Star Game in 22 years.
Warney hit a pair of long-range 3-pointers in the final minute of overtime to put the finishing touches on a long game.
Warner scored 51 points, the second-highest All-Star Game total of all time, and was named All-Star Game “Star of the Game.
He received 53 of 86 votes from the press corps to take home the $5 million prize. “
It feels good to be here and play basketball with good players,” he said.
Choi Jun-yong of the GongAji team recorded the second triple-double in All-Star Game history with 19 points, 14 assists and 13 rebounds. 먹튀검증
The first was Chris Williams in the 2006-2007 season.
Hwoong (34 points) and Dedrick Lawson (32 points, 15 rebounds) split time for the Celtics.
The Best Entertainer award went to Lee Kwan-hee for entertaining fans in a game.
The three-point shooting contest was won by Lee Geun-hwi (Busan KCC) in a dominating performance.
His final score of 27 points, which was higher than his 25 points in the preliminary round, gave him a comfortable lead over Andrew Nicholson (Korea Gas Corporation), who finished with 21 points.
He took home the $2 million prize with a stellar shooting performance, hitting both of his deep three-pointers from the new 45-degree left-right zone.
I’m so happy,” he said.In the dunk contest, Paris Bass (KT-207cm) and Justin Gutang (Changwon LG-188cm) battled it out with one spectacular trick after another.
In the end, Bass, who dunked the ball between her legs, scored a perfect 10 from all five judges to win by one point over Gutang.
Gutang’s stunt, in which he jumped over four people sitting in chairs, earned him a performance award.
Bass took home $2 million in prize money, while Gutang won $1 million.
